photo by LINCOLN KARIM


PALE MALE & LOLA'S NEST - FEB 26, 2005

Quick summary: On Dec 7 the 11-year-old nest was taken down.
On Dec. 23, the new "spike-holding-structure" was installed.
On February 26, in photo above -- a mere two months later-- the new nest is almost completed!

Pretty amazing.

P.S. 2/27/05 --Today's the last day of The Gates. Bye bye Christo.

2/26/05 -- LATEST SPRING BIRDSONG REPORT

via Jack Meyer:
Today, Red--winged Blackbirds heard at Bow Bridge singing their spring Conk-a--la-ree! [or, alternately, Honk-at Ma-rie!] song,

Yesterday, heard at the Evodia Field feeding station, the Chickadee breeding song: Fee-bee! [Note, many people hear this song and think they have heard a Phoebe. It's good to remember, if you hear a Fee-bee song at your feeders, that Phoebes are not feeder birds. Chickadees are.